SHPEtinas — Fostering Connections and Empowering Women in STEM
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, find out how the SHPEtinas movement is accelerating and affirming Latina representation at all levels of STEM leadership. Source
A Night Sky over the Tatra Mountains
Photo of the Day A natural border between Slovakia and Poland is the Tatra Mountains. A prominent destination for astrophotographers, the Tatras are the highest mountain range in the Carpathians. In the featured image taken in May, one can see the center of our Milky Way galaxy with two of its famous stellar nurseries, [...]
SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 277: Business Savvy Tips for Women Engineers With TED Speaker Susan Colantuono
Learn the crucial business and strategic skills to be seen as a leader at work with Susan Colantuono in this episode of Diverse: a SWE podcast! Source
Moving the Needle on DEI in a Time of Opposition
Margot Phillips, head of diversity and inclusion for North America at Ericsson, discusses how organizations can make progress on DEI during a time of increased scrutiny and pushback. Plus, join her upcoming free live event in SWE's Advance Learning Center on Sept. 18! Source
Mars: Moon, Craters, and Volcanos
Photo of the Day If you could fly over Mars, what might you see? The featured image shows exactly this in the form of a Mars Express vista captured over a particularly interesting region on Mars in July. The picture's most famous feature is Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the Solar System, visible [...]
Uncrewed Boeing Starliner Departs the Space Station
The Boeing Starliner spacecraft undocked from the forward port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station Sept. 6, for a landing at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams launched aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on June 5 for its first crewed flight, arriving at the space [...]
Navigating the Workplace: Latinas in Engineering and Corporate Culture
Each month throughout the year, we spotlight a SWE Affinity Group. In this post, two members of the Latinos AG explore the challenges faced by Latinas in the workplace. Source
SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 276: Together We Rise: The Power of Innovation in Engineering
In this episode of Diverse: a SWE podcast, learn how engineers are embracing innovation with the SWE Women in Government Affinity Group! Source
Quarter Moon and Sister Stars
Photo of the Day Nine days ago, two quite different sky icons were imaged rising together. Specifically, Earth's Moon shared the eastern sky with the sister stars of the Pleiades cluster, as viewed from Alberta, Canada. Astronomical images of the well-known Pleiades often show the star cluster's alluring blue reflection nebulas, but here they [...]
A Triangular Prominence Hovers Over the Sun
Photo of the Day Why is there a triangle hovering over the Sun? Although the shape is unusual, the type of structure is not: it is part of an evolving solar prominence. Looping magnetic fields on the Sun channel the flow of energetic particles, sometimes holding glowing gaseous structures aloft for months. A prominence [...]